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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1902
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR text mentions THE PRESS subscription and various garbled terms. The readable elements point to a plea or request related to a newspaper subscription, with scattered references to names, foods, and pairs of unrelated words. Further readable context is insufficient to identify a concrete event or person.
Neighborhood notes report David Johne’s dwelling struck by lightning causing major damage near New Hebron. Decoration Day events planned in Kohinoon with memorial address by J. G. Ristey of Mt. Carmel. Hotsonville resident Rev GLA Seed seriously injured in Flat Rock accident. daughter Mies Beste stays by his side. Cyrus Culver of Stoy reports burglaries with theft and a horse driven away. Special tax planning for a bridge project along the Martin Southwest township line. Obituary tribute to John B. Candit, longtime resident of Robinson, born 1838 in New Jersey. Local newspapers note market pressures and the shift toward a single capable paper for the town.
Mary E Clark daughter of the pioneer citizen Jake A Clark of Winnota is described alongside her family details. The obituary notes her father’s prominence, his hotel ties, and birthplace. mentions her mother Mea Nance Clark’s accident, and lists surviving relatives including Mrs Bat tie Higbee Evareville and Laura Wise. George W Wise is cited as her husband among Lawrenceville connections.
John Atterbury died at his home east of Wines Teelay on April 15 at age 38 after two months bedridden from consumption. Relatives invited by Mr. and Mrs. Kingsbury left for Ponca Nebraska. Mrs K. underwent a critical operation at Olver sanitarium removing a seventy three pound tumor. Mrs A Danting, formerly a citizen of our town now in Chicago, will have $1500 wealth rise in Wigenns Ferry Stock amid two competing railroads seeking control. George Cowman of Amity cut his finger badly on Sagere saw mill. H Worden of Hoble injured a rib while spraying apple trees. Mr. and Mrs EtG Wilson returned from Caspar Wyoming after six months. Michael Clementine Scheer and Anna Weiler employed to teach Claremont school for coming winter, third term for both. Herbert Mattene, longtime Claremont farmer, came to town to visit son M. C. Mone in East Olney and suffered paralysis, not expected to live beyond six days.
A batch of local notices describes injuries from a broken arm after a walk opening a hole in a sidewalk, a lost eye and a broken arm from a horse incident, and workers moving to new jobs in Toledo and Great Falls. Also noted are Pentecost celebrations by the Wigeienary Baptists in Shoals, wage advances by Jones & Co., and a man seeking new employment in Montana.
A jumble of short news snippets across regions mentions guilty pleas affecting a man in Jas henart and a $1435 charge from Daily Register, plus a West Chau church social and a Carmi Vince Porter note. Other items describe a Silver City colony, a New London inventor’s secret motor joint, a domestic assault case, counterfeiters, and a Germantown rheumatism cure success with Chambenaio’s Pain Basin.
A 1808 St Louis World Fair preview urges readers to subscribe to the prominent newspaper, highlighting its extensive circulation across the United States and Canada. The notice emphasizes timely home delivery and the paper’s unrivaled reach for all readers.
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